Door-hanger



(No Model.) I

E. Y. MOORE.

noon HANGER.

Patnted Mar. 18, 1884.

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. UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD Y. MOORE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

"DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 295,501, dated March 18, 1884. Application filed January 26, 1884. (No model.)

tion, taken in connection with the drawings furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear, true, and complete description of my invention. I

My said improvements relate to that particular class of hangers by which a sliding door is suspended from an elevated supporting-rail and rendered easily movable thereon by means of sheaves, rollers, or wheels, which peripherally travel on the rail and support at their axes a track bar or rod which forms a part of the hanger, so that a rolling contact is obtained between the hanger and the wheel or roller, as well as between said wheel or roller and the supporting-rail.

Hangers of this class have been heretofore variously organized and my improvement consists in certain novel features in construction, having in view economy in manufacture, desirable strength and durability, and the housing of the wearing portions of the hanger,

for affording as much protection as possible against the introduction to the bearings of abrasive and obstructive matter.

A hanger embodying my invention has at its upper end a wheel or roller space, two coincident grooves closed at the outer sides and ends, and a wheel or roller in said space, with its axle-0r hubs occupying said grooves, so

that the upper surface of each groove serves as a track-bar, which, with the axle or hub, is well housed and protected. For economically constructing such a hanger, I cast the frame thereof in two parts-one of which embraces the front and top portion and the other the back portion thereofand these two parts, af-

ter the wheel has been inserted, are firmly united by means of wrought-iron rods or bolts, which are housed within the cast metal at the top of the hanger, and said bolts so re-enforce the cast metal as to afford great strength with a minimum weight of metal.

To more particularly describe my invention, I will refer to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents one of my hangers sirable shank, and has suitable screw or bolt ears, I), by which it can be secured to a door. Being composed of cast metal, I provide it with strengthening-webs c, which are distributed with reference to the several lines of strain to which the hanger is liable to be exposed in use. The back plate,d, is much shorter than the front plate, and has a contour conforming With the corresponding portion of said front plate. The caps e, which lie between the front and back plates, and serve as thetop of the hanger-frame, may be separately cast; but I find it preferable to cast them integrally, either with the back plate or with the front plate, as shown, and in either case Iprovidc therefor a rabbeted seat, as at f; but this is of course varied in its location, according to whether the cap is cast integrally with the front plate, as shown, or with the back plate, it being obvious that in the latter case some portion of the front plate should overlie a portion of the cap, so as to well provide against breakage liable to result from vertical strains. The caps are arched crosswise, as shown, not only for the strength afforded thereby with a minimum weight of metal, but also to afford a housing for the bolts or rods although good results will ,accrue if the latter cannot engage frictionally with the coincident surfaces of the plates, because it is guided with reference to the hanger-frame by the ends of its hubh, within which or integral therewith 5 be solidly cast into said caps in a manner well is the axle h, which occupies the front and rear horizontal channels or grooves, 1', provided therefor in the front and back plates. The upper surface of each channel serves as a track rod or bar for bearing upon the axle of the wheel, and said grooves being closed at their ends and at their outer sides, the axle andits bearing-surfaces are protected, as far as is deemed practicable or necessary, against the IOG introduction of obstructive or abrasive mat- The combination of a Wheel or roller proter. I

It will be seen that hangers'constructed in having a short back plate and a long front accordance with my invention may be cheaply plate, united by bolts and caps, and provided 5 constructed with but little Weight of metal, on the coincident sides of said plates with and that they are susceptible of being prohorizontal grooves or recesses for the axle of duced in neat and highly ornamental forms. the wheel or roller, substantially as described. 20

The particular design embodied in the front plate of the hanger shown constitutes the sub- EDW'ARD Y. MOORE. 1o ject of a separate application for Letters Patentf Serial N 0. 118,864; \Vitnesses:

Having thus described myinvention, I claim SAMUEL H. MOORE, as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- GILBERT A. BRADY.

vided with an axle and a door-hanger frame, I 5 

